{"id":61,"date":"2009-02-27T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2017-03-04T20:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T00:56:41","slug":"top-100-things-twitterers-are-giving-up-for-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2009\/02\/top-100-things-twitterers-are-giving-up-for-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Things Twitterers Are Giving Up for Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-02-lent-big.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-02-lent.png\" alt=\"A Wordle of the below words shows the relative frequency of each one.\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some you\u2019d expect (alcohol, chocolate), some are ironic (giving up Lent for Lent, giving up giving up things), some are odd (pants, lint), some are anti-religious (religion, Catholicism), and some are tech-related (Facebook, Twitter\u2014even \u201cFacebook and Twitter\u201d makes the list).<\/p>\n<h3>Complete List<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Facebook (654)<\/li>\n<li>Twitter (317)<\/li>\n<li>Chocolate (272)<\/li>\n<li>Lent (216)<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol (187)<\/li>\n<li>Soda (139)<\/li>\n<li>Coffee (129)<\/li>\n<li>Meat (126)<\/li>\n<li>Religion (102)<\/li>\n<li>Swearing (94)<\/li>\n<li>Sweets (92)<\/li>\n<li>Catholicism (90)<\/li>\n<li>Giving up things (80)<\/li>\n<li>Work (70)<\/li>\n<li>Beer (60)<\/li>\n<li>Sex (59)<\/li>\n<li>Fast food (57)<\/li>\n<li>Facebook and twitter (57)<\/li>\n<li>Sugar (45)<\/li>\n<li>Stuff (43)<\/li>\n<li>Booze (41)<\/li>\n<li>Smoking (39)<\/li>\n<li>Food (39)<\/li>\n<li>Procrastination (38)<\/li>\n<li>Internet (37)<\/li>\n<li>Cursing (36)<\/li>\n<li>Caffeine (35)<\/li>\n<li>TV (33)<\/li>\n<li>Pancakes (33)<\/li>\n<li>Social networking (33)<\/li>\n<li>Sleep (32)<\/li>\n<li>Candy (32)<\/li>\n<li>Diet Coke (29)<\/li>\n<li>Giving up (29)<\/li>\n<li>You (28)<\/li>\n<li>Wine (28)<\/li>\n<li>Lint (28)<\/li>\n<li>Cheese (28)<\/li>\n<li>Bread (26)<\/li>\n<li>Shopping (26)<\/li>\n<li>Sobriety (26)<\/li>\n<li>Abstinence (24)<\/li>\n<li>Cussing (24)<\/li>\n<li>Red meat (24)<\/li>\n<li>Chips (23)<\/li>\n<li>Internet porn (22)<\/li>\n<li>Christianity (22)<\/li>\n<li>Nothing (21)<\/li>\n<li>French fries (21)<\/li>\n<li>Jesus (21)<\/li>\n<li>Sarcasm (19)<\/li>\n<li>Junk food (19)<\/li>\n<li>Starbucks (18)<\/li>\n<li>Ice cream (18)<\/li>\n<li>MySpace (18)<\/li>\n<li>Cookies (18)<\/li>\n<li>Fried food (17)<\/li>\n<li>Complaining (17)<\/li>\n<li>God (16)<\/li>\n<li>New years resolutions (15)<\/li>\n<li>Social media (15)<\/li>\n<li>Pizza (14)<\/li>\n<li>Tweeting (14)<\/li>\n<li>Carbs (13)<\/li>\n<li>MySpace and Facebook (13)<\/li>\n<li>Carbon (13)<\/li>\n<li>Eating out (13)<\/li>\n<li>Stress (13)<\/li>\n<li>Flaky guys (12)<\/li>\n<li>Laziness (12)<\/li>\n<li>Texting (12)<\/li>\n<li>Me (11)<\/li>\n<li>Some of your money (11)<\/li>\n<li>Annoying me (11)<\/li>\n<li>Sacrifice (11)<\/li>\n<li>School (11)<\/li>\n<li>Hope (10)<\/li>\n<li>Rice (10)<\/li>\n<li>Coke (10)<\/li>\n<li>Porn (10)<\/li>\n<li>The snooze button (10)<\/li>\n<li>Guilt (10)<\/li>\n<li>Men (9)<\/li>\n<li>Obama (9)<\/li>\n<li>Church (9)<\/li>\n<li>My job (9)<\/li>\n<li>Homework (9)<\/li>\n<li>Self denial (9)<\/li>\n<li>Moderation (9)<\/li>\n<li>Exercise (8)<\/li>\n<li>Bacon (8)<\/li>\n<li>Dieting (8)<\/li>\n<li>Paying taxes (8)<\/li>\n<li>Dr Pepper (8)<\/li>\n<li>Gossip (8)<\/li>\n<li>Beef (8)<\/li>\n<li>Pants (7)<\/li>\n<li>My sanity (7)<\/li>\n<li>Celibacy (7)<\/li>\n<li>Shaving (7)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>About<\/h3>\n<p>Created using the <a href=\"http:\/\/apiwiki.twitter.com\/Search+API+Documentation\">Twitter Search API<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/\">Wordle<\/a>. 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